Product Management - Product Flow
Streamline product development processes using Product Management - Product Flow template. Visualize stages, tasks, and dependencies for improved workflow.
Engaging with a Client
Purpose: Outline the initial approach to client engagement.
Content: Best practices for first meetings, communication strategies, and establishing rapport.
Questions for the Client
Purpose: Identify critical questions to understand the client's vision and requirements.
Content: Open-ended questions focusing on the client's goals, target audience, expected features, budget, and timeline.
Data Collection for Each Feature
Purpose: Specify the type of data needed for understanding each feature.
Content: Data types like user demographics, market analysis, and technical requirements for the calling and messaging features.
Information Collection for Each Feature
Purpose: Elaborate on the detailed information required for each feature.
Content: API integrations, hardware compatibility, and user interface requirements.
Handling Non-responsive Clients
Purpose: Strategies for proceeding when the client is unresponsive or unclear.
Content: Using industry benchmarks alternative research methods, reaching out to stakeholders.
Conducting User Research
Purpose: Detailing the approach for gathering user insights.
Content: Methods like surveys, interviews, focus groups, user personas, and usage scenarios.
Distinguishing Client Wants vs Needs
Purpose: Framework for identifying and prioritizing client requests.
Content: Techniques to differentiate between essential features and desirable additions, balancing business goals and user needs.
High-Level Timeline
Purpose: Outlining significant milestones and releases over 12 months.
Content: Gantt chart or timeline showing phases like planning, development, testing, launch, and post-launch support.
Top 10 Features with Dependencies
Purpose: Identify key features and their dependencies or constraints.
Content: Detailed list of features with associated technical, resource, or time dependencies.
Decomposing Features
Purpose: Break down each feature into manageable components.
Content: For each feature, list sub-features, tasks, and responsible teams or individuals.
Acceptance Criteria for a User Story
Purpose: Define clear criteria for evaluating whether a user story is complete.
Content: Specific, measurable criteria for one user story, demonstrating what success looks like for that feature.
This template was created by Mark V. Smetanin.
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The Hot Air Balloon Retrospective
The Hot Air Balloon is a simple activity for helping the team identify things that makes them move faster, and things that slow them down.
Work Breakdown Structure Template
Works best for:
Project Management, Mapping, Workflows
A work breakdown is a project management tool that lays out everything you must accomplish to complete a project. It organizes these tasks into multiple levels and displays each element graphically. Creating a work breakdown is a deliverable-based approach, meaning you’ll end up with a detailed project plan of the deliverables you must create to finish the job. Create a Work Breakdown Structure when you need to deconstruct your team's work into smaller, well-defined elements to make it more manageable.
Feature Planning Template
Works best for:
Desk Research, Agile Methodology, Product Management
Features are what make a product or service fun, but adding new ones is no walk in the park. It takes many steps—ideating, designing, refining, building, testing, launching, and promoting—and just as many stakeholders. Feature Planning lets you put a smooth, sturdy process in place, so you can add a feature successfully, and spend less time and resources doing it. That makes our Feature Planning Template a smart starting point for anyone looking to add new product features, especially members of product, engineering, marketing, and sales teams.
Year Timeline Template
Works best for:
Timeline, Planning
The Year Timeline template provides a comprehensive view of annual events and milestones. Perfect for planning yearly goals, tracking progress, and scheduling important dates, this template helps you stay organized and focused throughout the year.
The Product HQ— your product's source of truth
Works best for:
Product Management, Planning
An HQ for all your product thinking. A central place for you and your team to articulate and cultivate your point of view with regard to the concept at hand (be it a product, a service or something in between).
Define Your Product's Target Audience
Works best for:
Product Management, Planning
Too broad an audience? Or trying to target too many audiences? This is a certain path to product failure.